According to Town Supervisor John Ferretti’s office, Point Lookout and adjacent beaches were closed for swimming immediately upon the sighting, re-opened around 12:30 p.m. and closed again after a similar shark was spotted off Long Beach.
Town officials did not say what kind of shark was spotted, nor did they say if it was the same shark spotted in both incidents. In the aftermath of shark sighting, Ferretti’s office said the town deployed a Shark Patrol that used a drone and a jet ski to comb the waters for the shark.